Happy audio book pub date to JDLA client Claire Polders! @clairepolders.bsky.social Her flash fiction collection WOMAN OF THE HOUR is now out in Audiobook form! Listen up! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

RBmedia | Woman of the Hour

Listen to the audiobook Woman of the Hour, written by Claire Polders, narrated by Teri Schnaubelt.

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Lovely piece of flash fiction by @clairepolders.bsky.social over at fiction attic press! fictionattic.substack.com/p/what-she-r...

What She Really Wants to Know

flash fiction by Claire Polders

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“Uitwaaien approaches self-transcendence and can feel like getting high.” Reflecting on the meanings of the Dutch verb “uitwaaien,” Claire Polders finds more than a popular national sport of the Netherlands, including a home. @clairepolders.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/u...

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark

On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

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'A fall into timelessness.' I shall think about this all day. Thank you, @clairepolders.bsky.social clairepolders.substack.com/p/the-last-g...

The Last Gift

On grief, euthanasia in the Netherlands, and saying goodbye.

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Check out Claire Polder’s (@clairepolders.bsky.social) mind- and time-bending amazing hybrid piece, “Time Temperament Questionnaire.” “Imagine that for each anticipation, you’d have to sacrifice a memory.” Out today in The Bulb Region. bulbregion.com/Time-Tempera...

Time Temperament Questionnaire, by Claire Polders — The Bulb Region

Time Temperament Questionnaire — Claire Polders IN WHAT DIMENSION DO YOU spend most of your waking...

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THE BULB REGION is now online! 🚀🚀🚀 Make sure to read our four inaugural pieces at: www.bulbregion.com —

With @clairepolders.bsky.social @vineleavespress.bsky.social

Roz Morris@rozmorris.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wired to experience the world through words – talking to multilingual novelist, short story writer and memoirist Claire Polders If you’ve read my memoir collection Not Quite Lost, you’ll know I am laughably inept at foreign languages. So I greatly admire people who can navigate a language that…

In research notes, @clairepolders.bsky.social‬ writes about WOMAN OF THE HOUR (@vineleavespress.bsky.social). necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

"Polders strikes a delicate balance between the real and the imagined, between dream and wakefulness, between past and present." Marcus Tan reviews Claire Polders' Woman of the Hour. @clairepolders.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/defiance-des...

Crossing Borders in Language and Life booksbywomen.org/crossing-bor... by Claire Polders @clairepolders.bsky.social @vineleavespress.bsky.social

Crossing Borders in Language and Life - Women Writers, Women's Books

How writing in English—and traveling the world—made me a more daring author By Claire Polders  I have many reasons for writing in English. I love the language, its words, grammar, and idioms. My husba...

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It's pub day for WOMAN OF THE HOUR: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion. Thanks to my agent @marielamba.bsky.social, my publishers @vineleavespress.bsky.social, and all the editors who published my work! Print: vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/wom... E-book: bookshop.org/p/books/woma...

Congratulations to miCRo contributor @clairepolders.bsky.social on today's release of WOMAN OF THE HOUR: FIFTY TALES OF LONGING AND REBELLION with @vineleavespress.bsky.social .

Woman of the Hour by Claire Polders

“The riveting characters in Woman of the Hour are full of desire, anger, regret, and darkness. Their fragmented lives are tough, but their grit inspires.” Grant Faulkner, executive producer on…

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Excited to share this audio deal for Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client @clairepolders.bsky.social Claire Polders' flash fiction collection WOMAN OF THE HOUR with Tantor Audio! @tantoraudio.bsky.social Congrats, Claire!

Read this essay if you want to know what inspired writing is. I can feel the joy the author had in creating this piece; Her energy and thoughts are pushing this story forward. Just great.

Jacqueline Doyle@jacqdoyle.bsky.social · last yr.

My crazy lyric essay "A Wild Goose Chase" is out in VCFA's lit journal HUNGER MOUNTAIN. Can't wait to read the rest of this issue! I needed something light and funny today, which has been a real bummer. Thanks to the editors, and to Geoff Dyer for making me laugh. hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge...

"I'm trespassing into the sacred lake of poetry without an invitation, because I’m not wise enough to become the writer I want to be in any other way." ~ @clairepolders.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/p...

How The Sacred Lake of Poetry Can Bring Wisdom to Our Prose

By Claire Polders I’m not a poet. I voiced this denial multiple times in my life and with complete conviction. It’s the first thing I told Alyson Shelton when she invited me to contribute to her “W…

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The Travel Wire: best travel reads No. 40 Comparing Da Nang and Nha Trang, the secret CIA base in Laos, the reinvention of Catania, Sumba is not Bali, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/13-june-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #40

Comparing Da Nang and Nha Trang, the secret CIA base in Laos, the reinvention of Catania, Sumba is not Bali, and more travel reads.

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"Fellow authors were publishing flash fiction collections with small, independent presses. I was genuinely happy for them ... but I wondered: Why are their collections getting published and not mine?" @clairepolders.bsky.social discusses taking things into her own hands despite having an agent.

What Happens When We Treat Agents and Publishers as Genuine Partners | Jane Friedman

If you write material outside your agent’s wheelhouse, don’t be afraid of making an unagented pitch. Each success is a win-win for both of you.

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The coalition government in the Netherlands has fallen. The far-right leader Geert Wilders withdrew because the other politicians didn’t give him what he wanted. Does this mean democracy still works in the Netherlands? Let’s see what happens in the next election. Cannot wait to vote!

I’ve been busy rewriting my novel set in the Netherlands and Indonesia, and have hardly paid attention to my physical presence in Mexico. Do you have this, too, this feeling of disconnect when you write, as though you’re living in two separate worlds?

I just bought tickets to Machu Picchu, and I’m as excited as a little kid! It will be crowded in August, but I’m not going to let that stop me from enjoying the Sacred Valley and discover the rest of Peru.

We are open for poetry, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction through May 15th! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/s...

Submissions Now Open!

We are open for poetry, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction through May 15th!

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Cover reveal for Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion (Vine Leaves Press, July 29, 2025). What do you think? I have digital ARCs for reviewers and am available for podcasts, interviews, guest posts, and what all not. Please get in touch! (clairepolders AT gmail DOT com)

“Making peace with Israel as her home may be too much to ask, but in her moving memoir, a truce within her family and herself seems within Lang’s reach.” Claire Polders reviews Jennifer Lang’s new memoir. @clairepolders.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/l...

Sea lions photobombing sunsets is a real problem on the Galápagos.

More great reads! Here's an all-time fav middle-grade novel - charming, powerful, magical in war-time Paris. A child brings magic and humanity with the help of a whale in the Seine! A WHALE IN PARIS (Atheneum) by @clairepolders.bsky.social & Daniel Presley #kidlit bookshop.org/p/books/a-wh...

A Whale in Paris a book by Daniel Presley, Claire Polders, and Erin McGuire

"Perfect for readers who love a touch of the fantastic and the impossible." --Booklist A hopeful and heroic girl befriends a small, lost whale during World War II and together they embark on a journey...

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Let’s meet the marine iguana today. Camouflaged in the brush on the beach, sunbathing on a boulder, or on its way to the supermarket near the dock. They’re huge and slow, unless they’re swimming. They’re wild!

On our second day on San Christobal, I clambered over the rocks to watch this Blue-footed Boobie from up close. They seemed undisturbed by my presence, as they seemed undisturbed by the nearby presence of huge marine iguanas that freaked me out a bit. The Galápagos Islands are truly amazing.

Step aside with your cat pictures: I got baby seals!

We made it to the Galapagos! I am in awe. It’s sea lion pup season.